Amanda Vanstone (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the senator for the question. Without the detail of those words in front of me, I have to be a little bit cautious in my response. The proposition put by the senator asking the question is that the Prime Minister has said that the bill does not excise the mainland, to paraphrase. He has gone on to say that the committee report apparently says that the mainland is, with two qualifiers, effectively excised—for a limited group of people. There is absolutely no inconsistency between those two statements.